MEDIA
Schoolday Memories
From the age of seven through to her early sixties, explore the diverse memories of one woman’s association with Beechwood (Sacred Heart) School in Tunbridge Wells – as both pupil and teacher. (Independently published)
Time & Time Again
Cover design.
Behind Enemy Lines
The fascinating story of courageous agents and resistance fighters in World War II France. As told in the author’s father’s original account with additional research and commentary.
Copy-editing. Internal layout and formatting for print-on-demand. Cover design.
Wisdom of the Ages
University of the Third Age (Tunbridge Wells)
Recruitment Posters & Leaflet
The University of the Third Age is a national organisation dedicated to promoting learning and discovery among the older generation. With specific subject courses and lively discussions, the local branch wanted to spread the word in the community about the range of opportunities to be had.The University of the Third Age is a national organisation dedicated to promoting learning and discovery among the older generation. With specific subject courses and lively discussions, the local branch wanted to spread the word in the community about the range of opportunities to be had.
Design, typesetting, copywriting, artwork and pre-press
Legends of the Rocks
Claque Theatre & Rusthall Community Arts
Performance Programme
Following in a long line of community plays produced by Claque Theatre, Legends of the Rocks was a site-specific performance in Claque’s Rusthall home – celebrating the stunning scenery of Toad Rock and its environment. The performance was ‘devised’ by the community in a series of creative workshops and then developed into a final script. Run on a limited community budget, the programme needed to be informative as well as cost-effective.
Layout, typesetting, copy editing, artwork and pre-press
Brand without Boundaries
Arts without Boundaries
A new charity providing access to enjoyment
Arts Without Boundaries recently became a registered charity with Band Without Boundaries (BwB) as a core project.
BwB is an accessible community group whose members include people with physical disabilities and mental health challenges and non-disabled people – who together have learned and grown as they have evolved inclusive ways of creating and performing music. One of the most important aspects of BwB is how it makes people feel. There is something magical about their performances which have been described as: ‘visionary, outrageous musicianship, inspirational, true joy’.
Their logos needed to show the inclusivity and the joy of what they do.
Opportunities for Coffee
Zabu Coffee
Taking advantage of national events
Specialised mail order coffee supplier, Zabu Coffee, proudly sources all its coffee from Fair Trade suppliers so it made sense to promote itself alongside Fair Trade Fortnight.
It also made good marketing sense to link with the UK Coffee Week ‘My Cup Matters’ campaign.
The World’s Finest Arts & Craft Books
Search Press
Consumer Mail Order and Trade Catalogues
The leading publisher of arts and crafts books sells worldwide by mail order through two major customer brochures a year – and to the trade through another two detailed catalogues.
The content for each catalogue is outlined by the in-house product team and then requires detailed copy checking and design adjustments to achieve maximum customer appeal.
Proofreading and page layout
Helping to Publish
Practical advice to a debut novelist on digital edition formatting and helping develop a print-on-demand paperback.
sylviahoweauthor.com
Digital & Print Formatting
Use Your Imagination
The Imaginarium (CREATE)
Starter Pack
The Imaginarium begins with a simple suitcase … but this suitcase holds the unexpected. The contents are the starting point for community story-making sessions with countless benefits for all ages and abilities.
This starter pack is designed to instruct, to suggest, to inspire, and to spread the word about this amazing creative tool, and encourage people to set up and run their own Imaginarium sessions.
Branding, design, copy-editing, typesetting, picture research & editing, artwork and print management
A Long-running, Industry-credible Newsletter
ONEPOST
Copy-editing
Picture research & editing
Layout & pre-press
Pioneering postal agency, ONEPOST, has produced a regular newsletter for over 10 years keeping its clients and prospects abreast of the latest news and information about the UK’s changing postal marketplace. Remarkably for a company publication it has achieved a respected position within the industry.
We have copy-edited well over 50 editions (16 or 20 A5 pages) of Post Impressions and handled all the picture research and editing, undertaken the typesetting and layout, and produced the final print-ready/digital artwork.
Books Are Now in Your Hands
Unbound Publishing
The concept of crowdfunding brought to publishing. Authors pitch their ideas through the website and individual book-lovers can fund the books they want published.
Copy-editing
Titles to date
Escape Everything!
My Groupon Adventure
First Light
Left Field
98% Pure Potato
Why Did the Policeman Cross the Road?
Ladders to Heaven
On The Menu
The Good Immigrant
Cleverlands
Seas of Snow
Dead Writers in Rehab
Dazzling the Gods
7 Years of Camera Shake
Different Class
The Secret History of
Mac Gaming
Why Do Birds
Suddenly Disappear?
Soupy Twists!
Cull
Tales from the Walled Garden
Tales from the Walled Garden
A delightful collection of short stories written and illustrated by the owner of a walled garden used to provide gardening therapy for people with learning difficulties and mental health issues.
The collection was published in print, print-on-demand, and digitally.
Design, copy-editing, typesetting and layout, pre-press and formatting for digital editions
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{View/Download/Print PDF – Introduction & Chapter 1}
From Service to Civvy Street
Two Worlds – From Service to Civvy Street
Exhibition Brochure
Two Worlds – Legacy was the third and final exhibition in a series charting the experiences of people who had made or were making the transition – for various reasons – from the services to ‘civvy street’.
The accompanying brochure reviewed the previous exhibitions and then illustrated this exhibition which focused on the memories and memorabilia of life in the services.
Helping Organise Your World
Rock Villa Resources
Website
Designed for a start-up offering executive assistant and lifestyle support services.
Using testimonials as a central platform to demonstrate the range of services and illustrate experience. Created in WordPress to use posts as an easy and effective means of adding and updating testimonials and ‘tagging’ them for easy viewing of the various skill areas.
Concept and copy
Video Training for Internet Technicians
Guerrilla Productions
Video training scripts
Additional research & scriptwriting
This London-based video production company was commissioned to produce an extensive series of video tutorials – on computer networking and the internet – targeted at the Indian market.
Guerrilla appointed a project manager/senior script editor and a technical editor to produce focused script briefs from the complex source material. A small team of writers then developed these briefs and wrote the detailed scripts explaining the subject and adding additional visual ideas to help student understanding.
An Information Resource for Business
Business Link was the major channel for providing government and general business information to small and medium enterprises (SMEs).
Now replaced by a more government information oriented service as part of the October 2012 launch of www.gov.uk, the original service offered a wide range of help and advice.
I contributed several articles on general business subjects.
Research & writing
The Crystal of Kings
Tipperary Crystal UK
Press Insert & Mailing Piece
An extensive mail order campaign to launch a popular brand of Irish crystal into the UK market, focusing on the Irish heritage of producing high quality lead crystal.
Concept & Copywriting
Cost-effective Leaflet for Start-up Mailing Company
A1 Mailing Services
Company leaflet
A1 Mailing Services established a small mailing operation specialising in high quality work.
As a start-up budgets were being watched carefully, but they wanted some printed material to reflect their quality product and explain clearly and succinctly the services they offered.
Copywriting
Connoisseur Collection
Corgi Sales
Magazine Insert
Designed to evoke the British sports car heritage of the 1950s and 60s, the Corgi Connoisseur Collection comprised four limited edition two-car chrome models each mounted on a plinth.
Sold only by mail order the Collection helped restart the fortunes of the Corgi name.
Copywriting
Image licensed under (CC) Creative Commons – see link
Nostalgic Toys
Corgi Sales
Christmas Magazine Insert
A start-up company focused on using the enormous range of original Corgi model car die-cast ‘masters’ tucked away in a warehouse in Wales, targeted at those of us who just remember those bygone Christmas Days.
Copywriting
Not All Bean Counters Are the Same
Phillip Corbin + Associates
Website
Designed for a small tax advisory and accounting practice to differentiate it from the many competing firms.
The content was based on demonstrating that the practice staff – while extremely well qualified and professional – were also people with a sense of reality, humour, and a strong ethical trait.
Concept and copy
Nursery Days
Miserden Nursery
Website
A lovingly restored nursery with graceful Victorian glasshouses and cold frames, specialising in hardy perennials. Their first website wanted to reflect the care and attention that had gone into restoring the site – and its history – and to give a feeling for the beautiful setting high in the Cotswolds.
Design, copy and production
Mutual Assistance
Regis Mutual Management
Website
Regis employ the principles of mutuality and co-operative insurance management to operate mutual insurance companies on behalf of major coporate groups and industry associations.
Being a recently established company they required a direct website that positioned their brand as a reliable supplier to this high value market.
Design, copy and production
Parallel Lives
Claque Theatre
Programme
Production of an informative programme for a community play in a Sussex village.
Part of a strong tradition of community plays, Parallel Lives was produced as a promenade performance in the village church. All the actors and most of the ‘crew’ were local people, supported by a small professional team of director, writer and designer.
Layout, typesetting, copy editing, artwork and pre-press
The Vanishing Elephant
Claque Theatre
Programme
Production of a prestigious programme for a community play in local area of Tunbridge Wells.
It was this community project – originally called ‘Camden Road, The Musical’ – that gave birth to the current thriving arts organisation CREATE (Camden Road Education, Arts, and Theatre Enterprise) which continues to be at the centre of its community.
Layout, typesetting, copy editing, artwork and pre-press
